The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-07
STRANGE PEOPLE.
Bill Arp Does Not Understand the North
erners.

STRANGE PEOPLE.
Bill Arp Does Not Understand the North
erners.
Well, they are certainly the strangest
people in the world-those yankees I
mean-those northern brethren of ours.
Was there ever such a conglomeration,
such cross, envious, hateful.good ma.
tured, magnanimous brotherly mixture?
Listen at Sherman and listen at Hoar.
Listen at Sherman down south and Sher.
man up north. Hear Fairchild with his
hyena scream about the southern flags
and then see the generous banquet that
Boston prepared for the R. E. Lee post
of ex.confederates. See Mr.. Cleveland
and his acknowledgement trying to be
kind and forgiving to the south by
returning the trophies of the conquerous
and then hear the devilish yell of our
enemies. What world of comfort there
is in the noble words of Senator Hoar
when he said:
We, too, have learned to know, as We
never knew before, the quality of the
noble southern stock. What courage in
war; what attachment to home and
State; what capacity for great affection
and generous emotion; what aptness for
command above all, what constancy-
that virtue beyond all virtues, without
which no people can long be either great
or free. [Applause.] After all the fruit
of this vine has flower not to be found
in other gardens. In the great and mag
nifcent future which is before our coun-
try you are to contribute q large share
both of strength and Of ornament.
Mr.. Secretary Lamar, in his Grafton at
the un7eiling of the statue of Calhoun,
at Charleston, for which I am happy to
take this occasion to express my admira.
tion, does not exaggerate when he
declares that the late appeal to arms
"has led to the indissolubility of the
American union and the uniyersality of
American freedom" Applause
That is the kind of talk that whips us.
Mr.. Hoar can go through the length and
breadth of the south and find welcome at
every door. I invite him now to my
house, and even Mrs. Arp says he may
come, and that's saying good deal for
her. We know that he is republican,
but he is gentleman, and his heart is
all right. But all such as Sherman and
Ingalls,, and Fairchild, and Foraker, and
Halstead, and that reverend son of Beel.
zebub, John Rhey Thompson, may stay
at home, and shiny on their own side.
Ifthey love to be depised by about five
millions of good people, they are we!-
come. We want peace and fraternity
and they say no, you shan't have it.
The north wonders that: there is a solid
south. There always willbe as long as
the north has solid hate. We may
quarrel about Office and rings and the
tariff, but as long as the north ISLANDERS
us we will be unit. If I was the repub.
lican party and wanted to break up the
solid south and capture State or two 1
would do it through kindness. That is
the only weapon that can whip us.
I know it, for I am just one of our people,
a type of the average and Mr.. Hoar has
whipped me already. But I never did
see such people, while Mr.. Cleveland
is writing a beautiful letter to Queen
Victoria and paying tribute to her vir.
tues and wishing her long life and peace
and prosperity, and while her English
and Scotch subjects are celebrating her
5Oth anniversary, in Boston there is a
bowling mob outside trying to break it
up and it took all the Boston police to
keep them from breaking down the
doors. What kind of a people have they
got up north? We don't do that way
down here. Our people wouldent insult
a noble woman. We can be frieuds to
Ireland without doing dishonor to the
queen of England-a queen who has
reigned longer than any queen that ever
lived and who has tried 10 do right and
set good example to womankind every
where. She has raised some bad boys,
but she diden't mean to, and / reckon it
was our pretty American women who led
them asLray. She has been the best
queen tha. England ever had. I am for
Queen Victoria, !. am, and she is good
friend to Ireland to-day as Parnell or any
other man. The great question is, is
Ireland 8 friend to herself?
But after all it is not strange that the
north is so broken up, and as Webster
said so "disseyered, discordant, belliger.
ent." Foreigners are arriving now at
an average rate of 5000 a day, ana they
come with all sorts of opinions and all
sorts of prejudices. Thank the good
Lord that they do not come down here.
Here is the hope of the country, the sal.
yation of the government. Here is con.
servation and peace, and Law and order.
Here are good morals and good princi-
pies. Wehavent got much money, but
we don't think as much of money as some
folks. Our highest regard is for some
thing that we can carry with US when we
die. I would rather leave my children
good principles, truth, honesty and
integrity, than money, and so had every
father who has the right sort of love for
his children. I would rather be Marion
Rowland, my humble tenant, than Jay
Gould, for there are many promises to
the poor and none to the rich that l
know of. I don't want to be squeezed
through needles eye to get to heaven.
But still there are some hopeful signs up
north-and they encourage us and lift